Al Gore

Al Gore was born was born Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1948, the son of U.S. Representative and Senator from Tennessee Albert Gore Sr. and Pauline LaFon Gore, one of the first female graduates from Vanderbilt University Law School. Gore attended the St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. and then went on to Harvard, where a class with global warming theorist Roger Revelle introduced him to the environmentalism that would later form his legacy. His time at Harvard also led to his first brush with the entertainment industry: his roommate for much of his time there was a fledgling young actor from Texas named Tommy Lee Jones.